DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 33, 17 August 1905, Page 20

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

August 10. The parochial school at Onehunga has been taken over by the Sisters of Mercy.

Rev. Father O'Connor has improved in health, and has left the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. He is now at Parnell.

The entertainment tendered to the Sisters of the Mission by the Minstrel Troupe of the 11. M.5. ' Phoebe ' at Panmure realised £17.

His Dord|sh|i'pf the Bishop left for Wellington yefferday, ana will be away till the 27th. He returns via v the East Coast, making a short stay at Gisborne, where the Redemptorists are giving a mission. Mr. R. H. Pope, Government Inspector of Orphanages, has visited our Industrial Schools, and expressed' •himself tlftoro'uglhly well pleased with their working and condition.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament took place at St. Patrick's after the 11 o'clock Mass last-Sun-day, and continued until Vespers. Rev. Fatsher Cahill preached, after which the usual procession took 'place. A body of sailors from H.M.S. ' Challenger • received Holy Communion at the 9 o'clock Mass at? St. Patrick's on Sunday, and were afterwards entertained at breakfast in St. Patrick's Hall by the Bishop and Rev. Father Holbrook. Rev. FaitbJer Mea/gfcer was farewelled at Devonport last evening at St. Leo's Academy, and Rev. Father Furlong, the new parish priest, was heartily welcomed. Father Meagher was the recipient of a purse of sovereigns from the parishioners* the presentation being made by Mr. Mulholland.

By the ' Moana ' from Sydney last Monday en route to catch the White Star liner 4 Persic ' for Home, Messrs Carran, of Auckland City ; Foy, Thames; and Kera,n, Onehunga, , left to continue their studies for the priesthood at Thurles Oollege. The two firstnamed were for some time at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, and Mr. Keran was a student at the Sacred Heart College, Auckland. Last evening the annual social in aid of St. Patrick's Building Fund was held in the Federal Hall, which was tastefully decorated. The committee comprised Mesdaanes Swaim, Tobin, Fol'ey, Kearns, Middleton, and Misses Rist, Donovan, Mcßermott, McAuley, Stitt and Mahoney. Mrs. Leonards as hon. secretary worked well. Rev. Farthers Holbrook and C^lbill attended in the early portion of the evening. The feast of St. Ignatius, the feast day of the Superior of the Sisters of JVlercy in Auckland, was celebrated on July 31 at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonb'y. The pupils of the high school gajve a musical evemdng in honor of the event on the previous Saturday, to which tlie pa-rents of the pupils were invited. On Monday morning Mass was celebrated in the ton vent chapel, during which Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., as representative of his Lordship Dr. Lenihan, received the vows of Miss Mary McKendry, of Branxton, Australia, who took the religious name of Sister Mary Gon/ales>. In the afternoon the ceremony of reception took place, when the Bishop presided, and pave the white veil to the following young ladies :— Miss Linda Kauter (Branxton), in religion Sister Mary Nolasco ; Miss Kate Derahunty (Maitland), Sister M. Barbara ; Miss Annie Myall (Maitland), Sister M. Banaventure, and Miss Veronica Myall, Sister M. Calixtus. Mr. W Redmond, M.P. for East Clare, accompanied by Mrs. Redmond, has come and gone. It was by the mere-st chance that it was discovered .that he was coming over fiom vSydney in the ' Ventura.' Though the notice was short a large gathering of Irishmen and women a^miWed 'and gave him an enthusiastic reception. The first to greet him was a fellow-Wexford nNin, in the person of the Rev. Father Holbroolc, the members of whose family are well known to< Mr. Redmond. At the Bishop's palace another Wexford priest grcet«i him in Rev. Father Furlong, whose relatives were also acquainted with the member for East Clare. The Bisihop presented Mrs. Redmond with his photograph and autograph, and some very choice specimens of Kauri gum. With the Bishop's palace, particularly the handsome little chapel an 9 the charming view from t>he tower, Mr. and Mrs. Redmond expressed unbounded delight. Those who were privileged to listen Mr. Redmond's two addresses on the upper deck of the ' Ventura,' particularly the first one, will not soon forget them. The fluency, eloquence, and above all the deep earnestness and feeling he threw into every word aroused the patriotism of everyone within earshot. 'His tribute to the Hibernian Society was beyond praise. Owing to the delay of the • Ventura ' by boisterous weather, she arrived at the wharf at 1.30 p.m., instead of 8 a.m. as usual. The best was done under the circumstances, and from the Bishop downwards Mr. and Mrs. Redmond were made to feel tihat their presence in Auckland was heartily welcomed and highly appreciated.

The correspondent who supplied us with the particulars of the obituary notice of the late Mr. A. Kerr, Dacre, inadvertently stated that Mrs. Cctadon, Wyndham, was his sister, whereas it should have been Mrs. P. O'Neill.